This document discusses different worldviews and how they address questions about the origin, meaning and purpose of life, morality, and destiny. It contrasts a Judeo-Christian worldview with secularism. A Judeo-Christian worldview believes that God created the world and imparted meaning and morality, and destiny involves an afterlife and ultimate justice. In contrast, secularism sees no creator, believes each person determines their own meaning and that morality is relative, and sees no evidence for an afterlife. The document aims to provide frameworks for understanding different perspectives on these fundamental aspects of human existence.

1. Origin: Past
Where did the
natural world
come from?
Meaning
What is the
purpose of life?
Morality:
How is a
person to
behave?
Destiny:
Future Is there
a future utopia
or nihilism for
a person or
mankind to
embrace or
reject:
WORLDVIEWS ADDRESS
AHALLER

2. ORIGIN – THE PAST
• Origin (Cosmology)- the
beginning: What is the original
cause?
• Supernatural - a design
and purpose – every religion
has an answer
OR
• Natural - the mere
collision of random atoms?
The supernatural is
presumed not to exist.
Atheism asserts this while
Agnosticism does not know
• Post-modernism as non
rational “what does it
matter?” Reject reason.

3. MEANING – PURPOSE
• Meaning – words what do they
truly mean?
• Epistemology – Define a word or
meaning?
• Epistemology provides
justifications for broad categories
to describe what kinds of things are
known.
• Post modernism – Deconstructs
language – meaning is whatever
you wish it to be
• Purpose – Design (Ontology)
the reason for which something is
done or created.
• Words such as: motive, cause,
reason, basis, justification, resolve,
dedication, intension, aim, or plan
Post modern :
Meaning is whatever
you wish to have
subjectively

4. MORALITY – THE PRESENT
• Morality: beliefs about what is right and
wrong behavior - the degree to which
something is right and good : the moral
goodness or badness of something
• Ethical framework
• How can one describe evil? If you can
describe evil you must be able to describe
good. If there is good there must be a moral
law. If a moral law it points to a moral law
giver.
• Is the moral law giver the State, a Religion, a
Philosophy, a Person?

5. DESTINY – THE FUTURE
Utopia
• An imagined place or state of
things in which everything is
perfect. The word was first used in
the book Utopia (1516) by Sir
Thomas More.
• Synonyms: paradise, heaven (on
earth), Eden, Garden of Eden,
Shangri-La, Elysium; idyll, nirvana,
God's country
Nihilism
• The rejection of all religious and
moral principles – often the belief
that life is meaningless –
skepticism, negativity, cynicism,
pessimism
• As a philosophy extreme skepticism
that nothing in world has a real
existence

6. DESTINY AND TIME
Temporary with no afterlife
Atheism
Annihilation
Naturalism
Circular – Life Nonstop Circular
Hinduism
Buddhism
Eternal with a resurrection
Christianity
Judaism
Islam

7. COMPARISON
• Judaea-Christian
• Origin – world created by a
Creator God
• Meaning – every man has
value imparted to him by his
Creator or God
• Morality – there exists a code
of conduct expected by this
God- Moral absolutes
• Destiny – one day all the
injustices will be settled by
God. An Utopia will occur
ruled and reigned by Him
• Secularism
• Origin – no Creator – time +
chance = complexity and order
• Meaning – every man
determines purpose as he
deems best
• Morality – there does not
exist a code of moral absolutes.
All is relative. We all simply
dance to the tune of our DNA
• Destiny – there is no after life
– it is only speculative – make
the best of what you have

8. The End
A Haller